Tartar (horse)

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Tartar
Sire Florizel
Grandsire Herod
DamRuth
Damsire Eclipse
Sex Stallion
Foaled1789
Country Kingdom of Great Britain
Colour Chestnut
Owner Lord Archibald Hamilton
Leonard Jewison
Mr Thompson
Record6: 3-1-1
Major wins
St Leger Stakes (1792)

Tartar (later named Toy, foaled 1789) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the classic St Leger Stakes in 1792. One of the smallest horses to win a classic, he won the St Leger on his racecourse debut in September 1792. He won twice in the following season before racing without success in 1794.

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Background

Tartar was a chestnut horse standing 14.1 hands high, [1] foaled in 1789. He was sired by Florizel a successful racehorse whose other offspring included The Derby winners Diomed and Eager as well as the St Leger winner Ninety-three. [2] Tartar was the sixth of eight foals produced by the Duke of Cumberland's mare Ruth. [1]

The name Tartar had previously been used for several other horses in the 18th century. The most notable was a Yorkshire-bred racehorse who sired Herod and was therefore the paternal great-grandsire of the St Leger winner who shared his name. [3]

Racing career

1792: three-year-old season

Until 1913, there was no requirement for British racehorses to have official names, [4] and the horse who later became known as Tartar competed in 1792 as Ld A. Hamilton's ch. c. by Florizel out of Ruth.

There is no record of Hamilton's colt competing in public until the autumn of 1792. The St Leger, run over two miles at Doncaster Racecourse on 25 September attracted a field of eight colts and three fillies. Mr Wentworth's colt Ormond ridden by Leonard Jewison (1739-1817) was 3rd. Sir Frank Standish's Kit Carr and an unnamed colt owned by John Hutchinson led the betting at odds of 3/1 with Hamilton's colt starting a 25/1 outsider. Ridden by his trainer, John Mangle, the nameless colt won the classic from the filly Skypeeper with Adonis in third place. [5]

1793: four-year-old season

Before the start of the 1793, season the St Leger winner was sold and entered the ownership of Mr Leonard Jewison. He was still without an official name when he made his first appearance as a four-year-old at Newcastle-under-Lyme Racecourse on 2 July. Jewison's chestnut colt by Florizel contested a £50 race run in a series of four-mile heats with the prize going to the first horse to win twice. He won the first heat from Ruby and Highland Lass, and took the win when both his opponents were withdrawn from the second heat. On the following day Jewison's colt finished third in the first heat of another £50 race, but won the next two heats to win the prize from Virgin and Young Eclipse. [6] On 20 August, Jewison's colt appeared as Tartar for the first and only time in a race at York. This was a "give and take" race in which horses were given a weight based on their height. Tartar, whose height was given as 14 hands 1 inch, started the 6/4 favourite but was withdrawn after finishing second in the first heat. [7] Tartar's last race recorded race of 1793 was at Boroughbridge Racecourse on 2 October. He finished second, fourth and fifth in three heats of a £50 race won by Alexina. [8]

1794: five-year-old season

On 13 June 1794 at Manchester Racecourse, Mr Thompson's five-year-old chestnut horse Toy finished second to Minimus in the first heat of an £80 race. [9] According to the 1794 Racing Calendar, Toy was the horse formerly known as Tartar. [10]

Stud career

Tartar was sold to Count Vorontsov, then a minister at St. James Court, and was exported to Russia along with the 1794 Derby winner, Daedalus. [11]

Pedigree

Pedigree of Tartar (GB), chestnut colt, 1789
Sire
Florizel (GB)
1768
Herod
1758
Tartar Partner
Meliora
CypronBlaze
Salome
Cygnet mare
1761
Cygnet Godolphin Arabian*
Godolphin Blossom
Young Cartouch mareYoung Cartouch
Ebony
Dam
Ruth (GB)
1776
Eclipse
1764
Marske Squirt
The Ruby Mare
Spilletta Regulus
Mother Western
Blank mare Blank Godolphin Arabian*
Amorett
Oroonoko mareOroonoko
Mixbury (Family:2)

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